How about a little lemon juice?

Adding just 1/2 tablespoon of lemon juice to each of your 8 daily cups of water (distilled water is best) provides nearly 20% of the daily value for vitamin C. This major antioxidant not only fights heart disease and boosts immunity but also helps form the collagen we need to heal tendons, ligaments, bones, and blood vessels. An antioxidant help prevent damage to your body cells or repair damage that has been done. Antioxidants may also improve immune function and perhaps lower your risk for infection and cancer.

The antioxidant process can be compared to stopping an apple from browning. Without fail, when you cut an apple, it begins to brown. The vitamin C contained in orange or lemon juice prevents the browing. If you dip it in orange or lemon juice, the apple remains white.

My sister who is a naprapath recommended that I follow this procedure. Squeeze two whole lemons in your tea, seltzer, or other beverages to get your daily vitamin C quota; fresh juice offers almost twice the C of bottled varieties. According to my elderly uncle's doctor, lemon juice is filled with potassium and will nourish the nerve cells. His doctor has him sipping it all day.

The infamous Jethro Kloss author of Back to Eden says, On page 659 of Back to Eden, Mr. Kloss points out that, “The lemon is a wonderful stimulant to the liver and is a dissolvent of uric acid and other poisons, liquefies the bile, and is very good in cases of malaria. Sufferers of chronic rheumatism and gout will benefit by taking lemon juice, also those who have a tendency to bleed, uterine hemorrhages, etc.; rickets and tuberculosis. In pregnancy, it will help to build bone in the child. We find that the lemon contains certain elements which will go to build up a healthy system and keep that system healthy and well. As a food, we find, owing to its potassium content, it will nourish the brain and nerve cells. Its calcium builds up the bony structure and makes healthy teeth. Its magnesium, in conjunction with calcium, has an important part to play in the formation of albumen in the blood. The lemon contains potassium 48.3, calcium 29.9, phosphorus 11.1, magnesium 4.4. Lemons are useful in treating asthma, biliousness, colds, coughs, sore throat, diphtheria, la grippe [flu or influenza], heartburn, liver complaint[s], scurvy, fevers and rheumatism.”

Lemons are very beneficial to overall health and general cleansing, a good for constipation. Simply adding 1/2 to 1 tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice to a glass of water in the morning will help the colon to ease out any waste left over from yesterday. It helps to free the body of impurities. It also helps build the immune system providing the body with almost 1/4 of its daily vitamin C requirements. Lemon juice acts as a powerful antioxidant that also helps fight 'dis-ease' and helps to form necessary collagen needed to heal tendons, ligaments, bones, and blood vessels. Fresh lemon juice is more beneficial than bottled because it is twice as potent. It supports the liver by providing a natural strengthening agent to the liver enzymes causing it to make more enzymes. Lastly, the juice of a lemon supports oxygen and calcium in the liver because it helps to regulate blood.

While They Scream at Each Other

While the brothers scream at teach trying to figure out who gives the best lesson, who knows the most, and who can unlock the deep things, the family has gone to amuck.

While the brothers figure out what to call Him, sisters need to call on The Most High in whatever language we speak. Our babies are in trouble.

That's been the problem; the brothers can't agree on what to call The One Who Created us all. In the meantime, what about the children?

They argue about what day to serve him while our sons kill each other in the streets daily.

They can't figure out what to eat or not, yet our young girls lie with each as men lie with women. Teach your daughters to be women.

The brothers want to convince us that they can more than one of us when they don't even feed and clothe the first set of seed.

They want to talk about whether to read the New or the Old Testament, when from what I read,  real men of God were kind and patient in both.

They want to decide whether to read the Bible or the Qur'an - yet, 1/4th of them don't really live by either one. Listen to the walls talk. Look at the faces of their wives, watch how their children play.

While they are busy screamimg  at each other they are not attentive to their women nor do they direct their children.  The ones closest to them feel badly most of the time. 

They want to spend far too much convincing each other which one is right, yet in 2011, 1/3 of our children can't even read the word.

Good night I have to on the Westside at 7am to serve the youth who didn't find a place to rest tonight because their parents didn't provide it

Correction. I have to serve the ANGRY youth who didn't find a place to rest tonight because their fathers didn't provide it.

The next day I’ll be on the Southside to serve the youth who didn’t eat at all yesterday because their mother was too busy getting in her “me” time.

I need to stop slammin  the brothers, because sisters ain't right either. More and more I never thought I'd see the day when sisters didn’t nurture their offspring.

Yes, the scripture said our young men would be hidden in prison houses but it didn't tell you to push them into those doors with your neglect or your abuse.

Got an idea, every MAN hit the street, grab just ONE boy by the collar mentor him, feed him, smile at him,  and teach him to read that holy book you scream so much about, but be sure to teach them to do as you say not as you do. Problem solved.

It will be time to flee and they won’t know it because they’ll be so busy screaming at each other.  

T’aint Nothing Like a Bowl of Soup in the Winter

Soup is a food that is made by combining ingredients such as meat and vegetables in stock or hot/boiling water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth. Traditionally, soups are classified into two broad groups: clear soups and thick soups.

Slow cooking is a great option for cooking soups. Because slow cookers work at low temperatures with lids on, there is hardly any liquid lost during cooking. With most cooking methods, the water in meats and vegetables turns to steam and evaporates. With a slow cooker, there's nowhere for the steam to go. It just collects on the lid and bastes the food.

A bowl of soup and a hefty salad are  really good ways to add more veggies to the diet.  When I eat a good vegetable soup before a meal I am likely to eat far less of the meat and potatoes. The soup helps to curb your appetite and also forces one to eat slowly. The best part is that many soups are low in fat and calories so if you are famished, you can eat a hearty helping without fear of weight gain. Just be careful which soups you choose. Go for soups that are broth based and is loaded with vegetables for added nutrients. Avoid creamy soups like and those with  bacon.

"...with God all things are possible." St. Mark 10: 27

What do you desire? Do you really desire to lose weight. Do you desire the Lord send you in the arms of a kind and loving mate?  Do you desire your husband treat you better?  Do you desire to finally get your college degree?  Do you desire to be a better person?  Be clear. My mother used to always say, "be careful what you ask for, you might get it." God hears everything. Somethings we ask for we forget we asked for it until it comes or it happens. Don't forget, that faith without works is dead. So if you want your situation to change, you have to be willing to do something about it as you pray.

Take time to think about it thoroughly weighing all sides. Think about the good and the bad of yor desire. You can even pray and ask God to even help you with being clear on what you want from him. Read his word. All of it! At least a few minutes three times per day like Daniel did. Learn to praise him with you lips as well as your actions. Cry to him, tell him what you feel, what you think, what you need, ask him to correct your thinking, to strengthen your heart, TALK TO JESUS! Sing to him, shout his name when you are happy, when you are distressed, when you are working, even in your mind while you sleep! Love him and find out how he wants to be loved.

Remember that love is a verb, it is an action word as well as a noun. It is a thing, an idea. It requires that we think as well as act upon it. If you love God, do something. Read 1 John 4 to find out about God and the kind of love he requires. In loving him, keep your mind on Jesus, daily. Psalms 119:164 also said to praise him 7 times each day. Once you are clear, pray, ask God for whatever you want. If you commit your self to him, delight in doing so, trust him, wait on him, and forgive others, God made you promises that he will keep.

If your life and your desire is within his will then he made a obligation to make it happen for you. Learn what it is that he wants his servants to do with their lives, the book will tell you that. The scripture says eat it, that simply means to read it all the time pray for understanding, meditate on it, recite it, write down passages
you feel. Eat his word rather than over indulging in any vice. Eat it rather than overeat on food. God is your strength and your comfort, not food and the love of man or woman. 

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